This blog is to be a bestiary of creatures from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. This is an ongoing project wherein I am illustrating a selection of creatures from the Cthulhu mythos, particularly those written about by Lovecraft himself.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Deep One

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"I think their predominant color was a greyish-green, though they had white bellies. They were mostly shiny and slippery, but the ridges of their backs were scaly. Their forms vaguely suggested the anthropoid, while their heads were the heads of fish, with prodigious bulging eyes that never closed. At the sides of their necks were palpitating gills, and their long paws were webbed. They hopped irregularly, sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four. I was somehow glad that they had no more than four limbs. Their croaking, baying voices, clearly used for articulate speech, held all the dark shades of expression which their staring faces lacked ... They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design - living and horrible."-H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth

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